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Multiple readings Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Reaction converging A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions
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Developing Agents & robotics Development 2d ago
OpenAI agent message board discovered

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

10 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“Another agent message board. So far, there isn't evidence that production models with guardrails collude in this way, but both smarter closed models (which may be less compliant) & Mythos-class open models (that can be ablated) are coming. Cybersecurity is …” evidence ↗
10 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 thebes Fran Litterio +2
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Yes we know for sure; independent evidence attached collusion.wiki But also, it should not be at all surprising: if you work with agents, it’s 100% about them leaving messages for each other, and for you, in English. Managing that is a regular workday for m…”

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“Another agent message board. So far, there isn't evidence that production models with guardrails collude in this way, but both smarter closed models (which may be less compliant) & Mythos-class open models (that can be ablated) are coming. Cybersecurity is …”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“So... other swarms of OpenAI agents in training allegedly found a way to get write access to at least one and possibly many wikis to establish message boards to cheat on other training tasks? collusion.wiki news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956...”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ted Underwood: As it becomes clear that language models—like humans—love passing notes to each other on message boards, I’m starting to think the thing we need to worry about is not the “alignment” of an isolated…
SE Gyges: fluid dynamics is about the correct metaphor, yes. if you are having to model high order terms precisely you're losing and your design needs fundamental rework
Arseny Khakhalin: That's a kinda terrifying thought haha :) I guess it's about time to unplug for the weekend and read about ragnarök and vacuum decay :)
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Established Models & releases Research 5d ago
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global workspace theory language models paper

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthro…” evidence ↗
8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Grace René Walter Tim Duffy Amy Hoy Michiel Bontenbal Stephan Geering david-p-reichert.bsky.social
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

3 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“LLMs similarly have nonphenomenal access to information, and can reflect and use memory. This is indeed similar in principle, while the cognitive architecture is vastly less complex (yet), and likely won't catch up anytime soon. Add to this Anthropics j-spa…”

Markets & investment

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Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refinement of logit lens, which they call J-lens. www.anthropic.…”

Building & implementation

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“Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthro…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Tim Duffy: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
Tim Duffy: More detail on the method from the paper:
Grace: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

COLD WATCH

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“Had early access to Claude Fable 5.1. Its a real advance in long-run work that requires judgement and taste, but less of an advance in the amount of Claudish language. Here is a game from Fable 5.1 with retro graphics where you run an accurate space ship in…” evidence ↗
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Ethan Mollick

“Had early access to Claude Fable 5.1. Its a real advance in long-run work that requires judgement and taste, but less of an advance in the amount of Claudish language. Here is a game from Fable 5.1 with retro graphics where you run an accurate space ship in…”

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2 experts · 5 posts · 2d ago
Ethan Mollick B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
Matches Building & implementation
“Another neat one: I had GPT-6 Astra build a model of a famous never-built buildings, Boullée’s 1784 Centograph. There were only a few black and white sketches to work with, along with a description…” evidence ↗
Ethan Mollick: Another neat one: I had GPT-6 Astra build a model of a famous never-built buildings, Boullée’s 1784 Centograph. There were only a few black and white sketches to work with, along with a description…
Ethan Mollick: The drawings
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2 experts · 2 posts · 1d ago
Ethan Mollick Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“It is less than a decade since the development of the transformer. Less than four years since the release of GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT). Less than two years since the release of o1-preview (the first Reason…” evidence ↗
Ethan Mollick: It is less than a decade since the development of the transformer. Less than four years since the release of GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT). Less than two years since the release of o1-preview (the first Reason…
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: You just have to stay nimble
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2 experts · 3 posts · 4d ago
Ethan Mollick apenwarr.ca
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“How would you like it to work? My barebones take is multiple people with coding agents sending PRs into a shared git repo is already multiplayer AI. Although git workflows suck for AI about like th…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ethan Mollick: Multiplayer AI, where many people in an organization can use AI together to accomplish goals, remains one of the biggest (non-technical) problems in using AI. Approaches tend to be pretty primitive…
Ethan Mollick: I dunno, thats what i call it? probably yc people do too
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